1. Making MP3 Music Mobile

The MP3 format is continuously gaining popularity. Thanks to this boom, all kinds of MP3 players are hitting the market, either for your home of if you are on the road. Unlike music files on a normal CD, MP3 is able to compress songs to much smaller file sizes without losing much quality whatsoever.

MP3 is particularly known among PC-Users. Today you can find MP3 files of every flavor all over the internet. After downloading them to your hard drive, you can play them over your computer or your stereo.

In the past, you either needed to burn a music-CD, or record tapes or Mini-Disks to take your favorite songs along with you. Each of those medias is restricted to about an hour of music only. The portable MP3-devices available today you can either store a lot more songs or they are smaller and not shock-sensitive. One of the first portable MP3-players was Diamond's Rio. We compared the Diamond Rio 500 with the two newcomers.